Cinema of Actuality : Japanese avant-garde filmmaking in the season of image politics

Cinema of Actuality : Japanese avant-garde filmmaking in the season of image politics
Yuriko Furuhata
Duke University Press, Durham and London, England.
(2013) 266 pp., b/w illus.  
ISBN 978-0-8223-5490-1 (hc)
ISBN 978-0-8223-5504-5 (pb)

The Japanese word eizo is central to an understanding of the significance of the interventions made into the cultural life of the nation by a relatively small grouping of artists and writers working between the 1950s and 1970s. Traditionally used as a phenomenological term in science and philosophy the character employed connoted shadow or silhouette, later shifting to signify optical processes. Like the Greek term tehkne, creativeness and the tools used to achieve the outcome is relative, nuanced and complex. (in Leonardo Digital Reviews)